With a month to go before Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympics begin, VANOC CEO John Furlong described the mood inside the organizing committee as “positive anxiety.”
“We’ve been working on this in since in some ways the mid-'90s, we still really haven’t done anything yet,” Furlong said Tuesday. “The Games start on the 12th, that’s where the world’s attention will be.”
Responding to criticism that Vancouverites have yet to catch Olympic fever, Furlong said it’s just a matter of time.
“It’s happened in every city in the world that’s put on the Olympic Games in the past and it will happen in Vancouver as well,” he said.
Furlong said wrestling with the recession was the biggest challenge VANOC confronted so far.
“Having seen what happened, and how difficult it was to deal with, I think it made a better organization out of this one,” he said. “I think it made our team sharper and more focused, more resilient and more creative.”
Bob Mackin reports for Vancouver 24 hours
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salty dog
2 years ago
John Furlong doesn`t get it!
There is one big reason why BCers haven`t embraced the Vancouver Olympics,and that my friends is Gordon Campbell...
BCers were scammed in the last election,health cuts,education cuts,cut..cut..cut..cut cut and more cuts..The deficit scam...495 $million to 4 $ billion...and that other little item,remember Campbell told BCers and small business..."No HST"
More details on why there in NO OLYMPIC spirit in BC here.
http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.com/2010/01/olympic-spirit-not-gordon-campbell.html
Dan the socialist
2 years ago
“The Games start on the
“The Games start on the 12th, that’s where the world’s attention will be.
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Just a small part of the world actually.
The big event where all eyes of the world will be on is in South Africa starting in June and it makes the winter Olympics look so minuscule....
happy
2 years ago
No need to wait for June Dan
Considering what went down in Angola recently the eyes of the world are looking at S Africa pretty closely right now.
And not in a good way...
max von smartt
2 years ago
i'm so excited
i bought a cheap knock off red kanadian toque made in china with a maple leaf and the word "canada" to play along; get too many paranoid vibes from my black terrorist toque. plus i sport undies from COPE logoed (I am a) Free Speech Zone.
crankypants
2 years ago
Earth to John Furlong
We are not going to get the fever. We have loaded up on antibiotics that repulse such diseases.
G West
2 years ago
Hmm!
Angola is NOT South Africa.
And, the World Cup dwarfs the Olympics - always has and always will.
Happy New Year happy!
happy
2 years ago
OK
Of course Angola is not S Africa. But what happened there is directly related to the upcoming World Cup. Togo may not even show up now.
Happy New Year to you West!
G West
2 years ago
I disagree
What happened in Angola is directly related to the current state of anarchy and lawlessness in Angola - nothing more, nothing less.
Things are bad in some parts of South Africa but it is nothing at all like what is going on in Angola.
The implication that there is a connection is conjectural and specious.
Like most of the verbal effusions concerning the world of sports, about 90% of the commentary attached thereto is redundant, ill-informed and ignorant.
You can check it out.
freebear
2 years ago
No possibility of negative anxiety?
Unthinkable that there may be some negative effects from the 5 ring corporate orgy!
max von smartt
2 years ago
thought crime!
It is unthinkable that there could be a net negative result from this 5 ring corporate orgy, what with taxpayers footing one billion just for security on items such as cell phone and internet snooping on any potential subversive not brain dead and addicted to the boob tube, and closed circuit tv monitors to watch the sheeple.